Our age And that was in , long before TikTok and Instagram Reels. What Fisher fail to mention was that for Deleuze and Guattari, if not for Jameson, schizophrenia was not only the affliction of late capitalism, but also its exterminating angel. By giving rise to postmodern schizophrenia, they argu, the culture of late capitalism was sowing the ses of its own demise. Late capitalism (also known as neoliberal capitalism) is messy, chaotic, undisciplin. It is the economic Wild West, where money reigns, finances are fictitious, and all barriers to their flows are demolish.

 

This creates cultures and subjectivities that are also messy, chaotic, and undisciplin. But after all, capitalism nes order, stability and rules. You ne the state. It nes the arm forces of the State, its laws and its bureaucracies. And you ne good, stable, reliable citizens who will do your bidding. The chaos and disorder of schizophrenia threaten to disrupt the entire system. To be honest, I’m not sure it’s okay to use serious mental illness as a metaphor for our modern malaise. However, for theorists like Deleuze, it was important to see mental illness as political categories and not as natural and private categories. They are experienc by individuals, but are produc in and by societies. The personal is political.

 

 

The same can be said for neurological differences like ADD. And, like schizophrenia, ADD can also be understood not only as the totemic illness of our age, but also as its Trojan horse. ADD against the clock ADHD is essentially time blindness,” says leading ADD expert Russell Barkley . Erik does not agree. It is not a blindness to time, he maintains, but a forgetfulness of a particular social construction of time: time govern by the clock. Capitalism institut an economy bas on wage labor and with it, the commodification of time.